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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe.The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow.
Sherman McCoy is a Wall Street bond trader who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin, a Southern belle gold digger.Sherman and Maria are driving back to Maria's apartment from JFK Airport when they take a wrong turn on the expressway and find themselves in the "war-zone" of the South Bronx.
(The firm, Pierce & Pierce, is the name of the one that Sherman McCoy works for in Wolfe's earlier novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities.) Hoyt and Charlotte attend an important fraternity formal together, after which Hoyt takes full advantage of a drunken Charlotte, seducing her into giving up her virginity to him.
Madame Web, Marvel’s latest superhero movie and a Spider-Man spinoff, debuted in February 2024 to overwhelmingly negative reviews. Its 13 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 26/100 Metacritic ...
Tom Hanks at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Tom Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker who has had an extensive career in film, television and stage. Hanks made his professional acting debut on stage, playing Grumio in a 1977 Great Lakes Theater production of The Taming of the Shrew. [1]
After McCoy and Ruskin have their encounter with the two strangers on the partially-obstructed on-ramp, they (McCoy and Ruskin) go up onto the highway — again: apparently 895 — and drive — northward, apparently — toward the Cross Bronx Expressway: Then [McCoy] stared at a sign over the highway up ahead: CROSS BRONX GEO. WASH. BRIDGE.
Sherman, pet boy of the dog Mister Peabody on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show; Sherman, the eponymous character in Sherman's Lagoon; Sherman, a recurring character in Nickelodeon's The Backyardigans; Sherman Klump, the title character from The Nutty Professor; Sherman McCoy, the protagonist of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities
At the beginning of American Psycho, Bateman is a 27-year-old successful specialist in mergers and acquisitions with the fictitious Wall Street investment firm of Pierce & Pierce (also Sherman McCoy's firm in The Bonfire of the Vanities). [8]